Maya Hawke announces her upcoming album, Chaos Angel

Chaos Angel follows the success of Maya Hawke's second full-length album, Moss. With production helmed by Moss co-songwriter and collaborator Christian Lee Hutson, and featuring contributions by longstanding collaborators Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe, the album is about falling in love, fucking it up, and getting back up again.

“There was actually a girl who went to Brown, where my brother goes to college, and we were all going around saying what our wish was for ourselves. She said, I want to write the next great American novel. It was the moment where I felt older than everyone because I laughed so hard. I was like, “You are so far down the wrong track!” Wish to write a novel. That would be a miracle. Don’t wish to write the next great American novel, that’s a nightmare! It made me feel I actually am a different place in my life than these people I was around. It totally inspired this whole song," Hawke explains of the story behind the song.

Maya Hawke imagined a figure raised to believe they were a god of love, only to move through the world and realise they were instead leaving wreckage and ruin in their wake. After descending into self-loathing, the chaos angel comes to a new conclusion.

“On the journey home, she goes back through all the places she thought she destroyed,” she explains. “And in the rubble, wonder and beauty and magic grew.” It’s a parallel to Maya’s own experience across the album, snapshots leading to a new sense of self. The chaos angel watches over it all — a figure part guardian, part alter-ego, part imaginary friend.